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Guarneri House
Website: www.guarnerihouse.com
Location and Contact info:
221 John St. NE • Grand Rapids, MI 49503Phone: (616) 451-4960 • Fax: (616) 451- 9556E-mail: Sreileymbm@aol.com(map)
Luthiers:
Steven Reiley - President and Master Bass and Bow Maker. Steven Reiley holds two degrees from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor’s and Master’s in String Instrument Studies. His areas of emphasis were [...]

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Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Lemur Music
String Bass Shop

Colorado
Connecticut
Upton Bass String Instrument Company
Mike Asetta

Delaware
District of Columbia
Bob’s House of Basses
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Classic Contrabass
SMR Basses
Sonksen Strings

Indiana
Iowa
Heartland String Bass Shop
Kansas
KC Strings
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The BASSment
Michigan
Guarneri House
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New [...]

J. Condino
Website: www.condino.com
Location and Contact info:
Asheville, NC(828)450-5440secondfret@condino.com(map)
Luthier of mandolin, guitar, and double bass

Double Bass WorkshopWebsite: www.doublebassworkshop.com
Henry Boehm, luthierVince Jesse, luthier
Location and contact info:
We are located in Madison, Wisconsin and serve a customer base ranging from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee area, Chicago area, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa and Wisconsin. Our online store provides quality basses and bass accessories world wide. We pride ourselves on friendly, knowledgable and honest customer [...]

Practice Tracks (MP3)
We have hundreds of MP3 files available for students to work with online or to download. Visit any of the following links for some practice tracks.

Double Bass MP3 Sonatas, Concertos, and Solos - Practice Tracks and Downloads

Double Bass MP3 Orchestral Excerpts - Practice Tracks and Downloads

Double Bass MP3 Scales - Practice Tracks [...]

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The Complete Double Bass Parts series compiled, fingered and bowed by Oscar Zimmerman remains one of the core components of everyorchestral bassist’s library. One should eventually purchase all of these volumes for their collection–they will be used throughouta bassist’s career. I still have the volumes from [...]

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The six Marcello Sonatas (originally for cello) presented in this series are a great first step into the traditional solo repertoire forthe young double bassist. These pieces are best introduced one the student has a grasp of basic shifting, bow strokes, and accidentals.They are a [...]

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Franz Simandl’s 30 Etudes provide good supplementary material for the beginning to intermediate bassist. These etudes are presented in avariety of keys, and never get too difficult. More advanced players can use these etudes to develop sightreading.

Thirty Etudes for Double Bass By Franz Simandl. [...]

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Simandl - Vance - Bottesini
Bottesini, Giovanni - New Method
The double bass method book by the 19th century virtuoso himself. In two volumes.

Method for Double BASS Part One. By Giovanni Bottesini. For contrabass. Published by Yorke Edition (spartan). (514050710)See more info…

Method for [...]